Prohibiting Plunder
Subtitle: How Norms Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195337235
Subjects: International Law; Private, property, family law; World history; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; History - General; Military - General; Art / History / General; General; International; Property; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Art thefts; Cultural property; History; Law and legislation; Protection; Protection (International law)
Description: 'Prohibiting Plunder' traces and explains the emergence of international rules against wartime looting of cultural treasures, and explores how anti-plunder norms have developed over the past 200 years. The book covers highly topical events including the looting of thousands of antiquities from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.